Google: $698 Million in CapEx in 2Q08

Google (GOOG) spent $698 million on its infrastructure in the second quarter of 2008, a slight drop from a record first quarter but still among the largest quarterly capital expenditures yet, the company said yesterday. While falling short of matching the $842 million in the first quarter, the latest capex figure virtually matches the previous high of $699 million in the second quarter of 2006. The record capex investment reflects the acceleration of Google’s data center construction program in 2007. Here’s a look at the trend:

1Q 2006: $345 million

2Q 2006: $699 million

3Q 2006: $492 million

4Q 2006: $367 million

1Q 2007: $597 million

2Q 2007: $575 million

3Q 2007: $553 million

4Q 2007: $678 million

1Q 2008: $842 million

2Q 2008: $698 million

The capital expenditures are dedictaed to ongoing construction on the four major data center projects Google announced in the U.S. in 2007, including facilities in North Carolina, South Carolina, Oklahoma and Iowa. Google says its capital expenditures are “related to IT infrastructure investments, including data centers, servers, and networking equipment.”

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Rich Miller is the founder and editor at large of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.